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My customers will find this new catalogue very dif¬ 
ferent from any one which I have previously published. 
In 1914, I accidently discovered that a small peony 
division with only one eye could be induced to make 
remarkable growth during its first year if I watered 
it regularly in the fall and also again during the months 
of April and May. As a result of this, during the past 
twenty years, I plant only single eye divisions in my 
own garden to produce the roots and divisions for 
future years. 
Last year, 1939, my catalogue of three to five eye 
peony divisions produced fewer orders than I had hoped 
for and expected to receive. I came very nearly de¬ 
ciding to quit the peony game. 
However, during the last week of September the 
thought came to me, “Why not try to sell to my cus¬ 
tomers the same kind of one eye divisions which I 
always plant in my own garden.” I immediately got 
out a list of prices on one eye divisions and sent it to 
my customers. The response was so generous that the 
orders during October and November kept me so busy 
that I did not get to complete my own fall planting 
and I was compelled to place some of my roots in my 
basement and plant them the following April. 
Consequently, this year, while I am listing some 
varieties in three to five eye divisions, I am placing 
my emphasis and enthusiasm on the sale of one and 
two eye divisions and on one and two year old plants. 
I hope every one of my customers will make an ex¬ 
perimental planting of some of my small divisions and 
one year plants for I am sure that the majority of 
them, if properly planted and watered this fall and next 
spring, will produce blooms the first year. 
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iPJngjte Vxvdeiiei. 
Scientists tell us that the first peony in this world 
was a single or simple one with only one row of petals 
and of only one color, white. These same scientists 
tell us that all of the beautiful single varieties, pink, 
white, and red; all of the Japanese varieties with one, 
two or more rows of white, pink, and red petals with 
their golden decorated central staminodes and petal- 
oids; and also all the massive white, pink, and red 
double peonies in the world have decended from that 
very modest, medium size, white, single peony of cen¬ 
turies and possibly millenniums ago. Single varieties 
came first in history and so I place them first in this 
catalogue. 
BETTY LOU (Brand) 
A medium tall single peony with a beautiful large 
light pink bloom which holds its color and form better 
than many other singles. It is beautiful even after 
it begins to lose its bright color. 
3 to 5 eye divisions only.$5.00 
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